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The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot Staff Pick The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot is one of my favorite books. Fascinating. Amazing! Physics, swamis, waves, and particles. Extremely readable.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss Staff Pick Lawrence Krauss's new book, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing, summarizes the continuing developments in the field of cosmology. In addition to championing these new insights in the study of modern physics, Krauss also... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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Cosmos by Carl Sagan Publisher Comments The best-selling science book ever published in the England language, COSMOS is a magnificent overview of the past, present, and future of science. Brilliant and provocative, it traces today's knowledge and scientific methods to their historical roots... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Starship and the Canoe by Kenneth Brower Publisher Comments The story of a father and son who search for life's meaning in very different ways. "In the tradition of Carl Sagan and John McPhee, a bracing cerebral voyage past intergalactic hoopla and backwoods retreats."--Kirkus... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene Staff Pick Many books have been written in an attempt to explain quantum physics to the layperson. Considering that most physicists still have problems coming to grips with the counter-intuitive implications of quantum theory, it is easy to understand why they do... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes Publisher Comments A gripping, authoritative account of the men, women, science, drama and intrigue behind the single most important event of the century: the discovery of nuclear energy and construction of the atomic bomb. 32 pages of black-and-white photographs.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Physics for Dummies (For Dummies) by Steven Holzner Publisher Comments Does just thinking about the laws of motion make your head spin? Does studying electricity short your circuits? Do the complexities of thermodynamics cool your enthusiasm? Thanks to this book, you don’t have to be Einstein to understand physics. As... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Staff Pick This learned and amusing work covers the origin of the universe to the human genome. A welcome journey with Bryson in typical wise and witty fashion.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Quantum Zoo: A Tourist's Guide to the Neverending Universe by Marcus Chown Publisher Comments They have even gained a reputation of being beyond the understanding of the average person. Author Marcus Chown emphatically disagrees. As Einstein himself said, "Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple and may, as a rule, be... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene Staff Pick Using Simpsons and X-Files examples, Brian Greene explains our current understanding of the universe. Whereas The Elegant Universe was primarily about the obscure, largely theoretical world of susperstring theory, Fabric of the Cosmos holds to more solid... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program) by Kip S Thorne Publisher Comments Which of these bizarre phenomena, if any, can really exist in our universe? Black holes, down which anything can fall but from which nothing can return; wormholes, short spacewarps connecting regions of the cosmos; singularities, where space and time are... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Physics (Cliffs Quick Review) - Study Notes by Cliffs Notes Publisher Comments Beverage alcohol has been a part of American culture since the first European settlers arrived with their family recipes for beers and spirits and founded their own distilleries and alehouses. Yet it wasnt until Kentuckians began distilling whiskey... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Einstein for Dummies (For Dummies) by Carlos Calle Publisher Comments Genius demystified, the Dummies way! In 1905, Albert Einstein revolutionized modern physics with his theory of relativity. He went on to become a twentieth-century icon-a man whose name and face are synonymous with "genius." Now, at last, ordinary... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin Staff Pick An ambitious tribute to a brilliant mind, Sherwin and Bird's intriguing biography gives insight into the full sweep of Oppenheimer's life and genius. Articulate and thoughtful, American Prometheus captures the intellect of the gifted physicist and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose Publisher Comments Since the earliest efforts of the ancient Greeks to find order amid the chaos around us, there has been continual accelerated progress toward understanding the laws that govern our universe. And the particularly important advances made by means of the... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (Great Discoveries) by Lawrence M Krauss Publisher Comments Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a theoretical physicist and a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom by Graham Farmelo Publisher Comments Paul Dirac was among the greatest scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of Einstein's most admired colleagues, he helped discover quantum mechanics, and his prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest triumphs in the history of physics. In 1933... (read more) List Price $32.13 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space by Janna Levin Staff Pick Started as a series of letters to her mom, How the Universe Got Its Spots turned into Janna Levin's diary of her life as a scientist out to determine the size of the cosmos. Levin poetically mixes fascinating scientific details with personal anecdotes. A... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson Staff Pick In preparing this engaging biography of the world's most famous smart guy, Isaacson enlisted the aid of several physicists including Murray Gell-Mann, Brian Greene, Lawrence Krauss, and Douglas Stone. As a result, this is much more than an "Einstein... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Einstein's Mirror by Anthony Hey Publisher Comments Lavishly illustrated, fascinating and accessible introduction to Einstein's relativity for general readers, school students and undergraduates.... (read more) List Price $71.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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